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MIAMI, April 28--As rough seas and strong winds continued to hamper the exodus of Cuban refugees across the Florida Straits, United States customs agents in Key West today seized a lobster boat and two shrimp boats that arrived over the weekend with 507 men and women seeking political asylum.

SCIENTISTS are paying increas ing attention to magnetic fields produced by electrical activities of the human brain, heart and other organs. Even the hair follicles on the head have been found recently to generate their own magnetic fields.

IN the tents and bamboo huts that serve as hospitals for the tens of thousands of Cambodians who have fled their country in recent months, patients rest on cots or mats on dirt floors, with their medical records clipped to wires above them. The doctors who are making their rounds have come from several countries in a massive humanitarian relief effort.

WASHINGTON LABORATORY tests in the United States, France, Switzerland and the Soviet Union strongly suggest that neutrinos --seemingly weightless "ghost" parti cles believed to fill the universe--actually have mass. As stated by Carlo Rubbia, a Harvard University physics professor, "the cosmological consequences are absolutely fantastic."

So far, Mayor Koch said yesterday, the record of the State Senate's minority leader in winning improved aid for New York City has been "zilch."

WASHINGTON, April 28--The extraordinary resignation of Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance is the first severe political jolt to President Carter following the aborted Iranian rescue mission, ...

SAN ANTONIO, April 28--A grimfaced President Carter accused Iranian officials today of violating "all principles of humanity and decency" in publicly exhibiting the bodies of the eight servicemen who died in an effort to rescue the American hostages in Teheran.

A number of banks across the country, led by the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company and the Bankers Trust Company, dropped their prime rate 1 percentage point yesterday, to 18 percent, continuing the decline that started a week ago and giving additional evidence that short-term rates have peaked.

TEN provocative designs in ink, created by Hermann Rorschach more than 60 years ago, have survived decades of misuse and misunderstanding to be hailed by many psychologists as a powerful tool for predicting suicide attempts, planning treatment for prospective patients and evaluating the progress of those receiving therapy.

The continuing effort to clear up the Hunt brothers' tangled financial interests gained momentum yesterday with the removal of two stumbling blocks to settling their silver trading debts.